One of the hardest things to accomplish is fast SEO results. Most business and entrepreneurs are not willing to pay for SEO companies that might not deliver results right away or at all. If PPC only gives you 20% exposure and you can get top ranking doubling or tripling exposure for a fraction of the cost why don’t more companies don’t take advantage of it.

Accountants are running the show by calculating ROI based on SEM budgets.

SEM is easy to predict. I can see instantly where my dollars are going and quantify the profit generated from a PPC campaign. SEO is usually less expensive but a constant fee.

SEO is like a windmill that continually produces the same amount of energy/leads while SEM is a nuclear power plant. I can’t ask wind turbine to produce more energy but if I have enough of them the could supply all my needs. Yet having a nuclear power plant gives me the ability to call it into service to make my monthly/yearly numbers.

In the end SEM should only be a complementary to SEO efforts to a successful online campaign.

A constant comment on my blog is. Why are you not making money in this blog.

I have managed multiple websites and analysed on the best ways to make money. I believe that making a viable website/blog with good quality content is the key. Build something people want to pay to place a link, banner or code is the key it is also the long term result of many unpaid hours of work building up to that.

Write and talk about something you are passionate and or knowledgeable about. Get familiar with SEM so you know how to use pad your text with long-tail key phrases not as a dirty SEO trick but more like a good common SEO text based practice.

Why are there so many comments on my blog regarding making money with my brand new blog? Not because they are sincerely concerned about my economic situation. I am sure I am not the only blog that get those comments. It is because they want to show me or sell me something I already know.

When you write about something you are passionate about, that is payment enough but down the line that passion can turn into real profit.

Consistent quality work will always pay better that get reach quick skims and easy turn key solutions. Remember very few unsolicited contacts are in it just for themselves. Trust in your real friends but only after you test them.

Notice how three of the top ten ranked websites use the words ” Houston and SEO” in the domain name. Having the best domain name like HoustonSEO.com Does not guarantee success. In this case the owners of the best potential domain did not rank well because they redirected the domain instead of using it for an actual website. Owning a quality domain has value but using it properly is the best way to get achieve their full potential. On the other hand seohouston.com was the top SEM spot. Paying top dollar for a ranking position that should be already theirs.

I really want a job that needs most of them. I also want a job that really needs my SEO skills which are my passion.

I find man jobs that require one or just a few of them. Giving up one or a few would be ok except for SEO. I know the best possible job for me is out there and it would also be the most satisfying and profitable.

I just don’t know how to become a consultant when all my interviews feel like a free Consulting strategy meeting. Am I to smart for my own good?

I feel like wearing a sing in Downtown Houston that reads “will SEO for food.com”